GO FROM ME....

      "I am so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers..." - L.M.Montgomery

       FROM SUNSET to STAR RISE..( Christina Rossetti 1830-1894)

Go from me, summer friends and tarry not

I am no summer friend, but wintry cold...

A silly sheep, beknighted from the fold

A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot

Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot

Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold

Lest you with me will shiver on the wold

Athirst and hungering on a barren spot

For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge

Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the hedge

Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back

My heart goes sighing............

After Swallows flown.......

On some time's summer's returning track

*Christina Rossetti (1830-94) was one of the Victorian era’s greatest writers,  sister of  artist/ poet Dante Rossetti. 

Photographs 2024